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2. Hand tool - Wikipedia

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   A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. [1] Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, hacksaws, drills, and knives . Outdoor tools such as garden forks, pruning shears, and rakes are additional forms of hand tools.

3. File (tool) - Wikipedia

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   File (tool) Detail of a double-cut flat file showing cutting surfaces on both wide and narrow faces. A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece. It is common in woodworking, metalworking, and other similar trade and hobby tasks. Most are hand tools, made of a case hardened steel bar of rectangular, square ...

4. Pliers - Wikipedia

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   Slip joint pliers. Cutting wire with diagonal pliers /side cutters. Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe. [1] They are also useful for bending and physically compressing a wide range of materials. Generally, pliers consist of a pair of metal first-class ...

5. Tool - Wikipedia

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   Other tools have a primary purpose but also incorporate other functionality – for example, lineman's pliers incorporate a gripper and cutter and are often used as a hammer; and some hand saws incorporate a square in the right-angle between the blade's dull edge and the saw's handle.

6. Mattock - Wikipedia

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   A mattock ( / ˈmætək /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze ( cutter mattock ), or a pick and an adze ( pick mattock ). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires.

7. Machine tool - Wikipedia

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   A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. All machine tools have some means of constraining the workpiece and provide a guided movement of the parts ...